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A09486	Luthers fore-runners: or, A cloud of witnesses, deposing for the Protestant faith Gathered together in the historie of the Waldenses: who for diuers hundred yeares before Luther successiuely opposed popery, professed the truth of the Gospell, and sealed it with their bloud ... Diuided into three parts. The first concernes their originall beginning ... The second containes the historie of the Waldenses called Albingenses. The third concerneth the doctrine and discipline which hath bene common amongst them, and the confutation of the doctrine of their aduersaries. All which hath bene faithfully collected out of the authors named in the page following the preface, by I.P.P. L. Translated out of French by Samson Lennard.; Histoire des Vaudois. English	Perrin, J. P. (Jean Paul); Lennard, Samson, d. 1633.	1624 (1624)	STC 19769; ESTC S114487	267,031	522

of Christ without which the Soule cannot liue And of this Bread Christ spake vnto his Disciples Whosoeuer shall eate of this bread shall liue eternally And therefore it is the dutie of euery man in all humilitie to aske this Bread at Gods hands who can giue it him saying O our Father doe vs the grace and fauour that wee may obtaine by our iust labour the bread that is necessary for our bodies and to vse it with sobriety and measure yeelding thee alwayes thankes and praises and that wee may charitably bestow some part of them vpon the poore Moreouer we beseech thee that thou wilt bee pleased so to deale with vs that wee may vse this bread with sobriety to thy glory and the good both of body and soule For the Prophet Ezekiel saith Chap. 16.49 That fulnesse of bread and abundance of idlenesse was the cause of the iniquities and abominations of Sodom which were so great in the sight of God that he sent downe fire and brimstone to consume them Whereupon a certaine learned Father saith that costly apparrell superfluitie in diet play idlenesse and sleepe fatten the body nourish luxurie weaken the spirit and leade the soule vnto death but a spare diet labour short sleepe poore garments purifie the soule tame the body mortifie the lusts of the flesh and comfort the Spirit The spirituall Bread is the Word of God Of this Bread the Prophet speaketh Thy bread quickeneth mee And Christ saith in the Gospell Verily I say vnto you that the houre commeth when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God and they that heare him shall liue And this is found true by this experience That is that many being dead in their sinnes hearing the Preaching of the Word of God haue departed quickned raised by the said Word of God betaken themselues to true repentance which giueth life This bread of the Word illuminateth the soule according to that of Dauid Psal 119.130 The entrance of thy word giueth light it giueth vnderstanding to the simple that is to say to the humble to the end they may know what to beleeue and to doe what to feare to flye to loue to hope This bread delighteth the soule more then honey and the honey-combe And therefore faith the Spouse Canticles 2.11 Let me heare thy voyce for sweete is thy voyce and thy countenance is comely There is another Spirituall Bread and that is the Body and Blood of our Lord and Sauiour Iesus Christ In the Sacrament they that receiue it worthily receiue not onely grace but Christ the Sonne of God spiritually in whom are hid all the treasures of wisedome Pardonna a nos li nostre debit o pecca coma nos per donnen a li nostre debitor o offendadors Forgiue vs our trespasses as we forgiue them that trespasse against vs. IT should not seeme or bee grieuous to any man to forgiue his neighbour those offences hee hath committed against him For if all the offences which haue beene or can bee committed against all the men in the world were put into a ballance they would not weigh so much being put altogether as the least offence committed against God but the pride of man will not suffer men to thinke heereof neither to pardon their neighbours nor to receiue their pardon from God But a good Christian suffereth and gently pardoneth beseeching God that hee may not make requitall according to the euill his debtors or such as haue offended him haue deserued and that he will giue them grace to know their fault and withall true repentance to the end they may not bee damned and the wrongs done vnto him he accounteth as dreames in such manner that hee thinkes not of repaying them according to their merits nor desires to reuenge himselfe but to doe them seruice and to conuerse with them as before yea and with greater loue then if they were brethren And therefore hee that out of the crueltie of his heart will by no meanes forgiue his enemy or debtour cannot hope for pardon at Gods hand but rather eternall damnation For the Spirit of God hath spoken it and it is true Hee shall haue Iudgement without mercy that is not mercifull to others The affection and the will that thou hast towards thy debtour is the same which God hath in his place and ranke and thou canst hope for no other Non nos amenar en tentation c. And leade vs not into temptation c. VVEe are not to pray vnto God not to suffer vs to bee tempted For the Apostle Saint Paul saith None shall be crowned but he that fighteth against the world the flesh and the deuill And Saint Iames saith that he is blessed that endureth temptation For when hee hath past his tryall hee shall receiue a crowne of life For no man can resist the power of the deuill without the grace of God Wee must therefore pray with all humilitie and deuotion and continuall requests vnto our heauenly Father that wee fall not into temptations but so as that combating with them wee may get the victory and the Crowne by and through his grace which hee hath prepared to giue vnto vs. We are not to beleeue that he doth sooner heare or more willingly the Diuell then the Christian and according to that which the Apostle Saint Paul saith God is faithfull who suffereth vs not to bee tempted aboue our power Mas desliora nos del mal c. But deliuer vs from euill c. THat is to say Deliuer vs from a wicked will to sinne from the temporall and eternall paines of the deuill that wee may bee deliuered from his infinite toyles and trumperies AMEN This last word noteth vnto vs the feruent desire of him that prayeth that that thing may bee granted vnto him that hee asketh And this word Amen is as much as if he should say So bee it and it may bee put after all our Petitions What the Waldenses and Albingenses haue beleeued and taught touching the Sacraments CHAP. VI. Sacrament second lo dire de Sanct Augustin c. A Sacrament according to the saying of Saint Augustine in his Booke of the Citie of God is an inuisible grace represented by a visible thing Or a Sacrament is a signe of a holy thing There is great difference betwixt the bare Sacrament and the cause of the Sacrament euen as much as betweene signe and the thing signified For the cause of the Sacrament is the Diuine grace and the merit of Iesus Christ crucified who is the raysing of those that were fallen This cause of the Sacrament is Powerfully Essentially and by authority in God and in Iesus Christ Meritoriously For by the cruell Passion and effusion of his Bloud he hath obtained grace and righteousnesse vnto all the faithfull But the thing it selfe of the Sacrament is in the soule of the faithfull by participation as Saint Paul speaketh Wee haue beene made partakers of Christ It is in the Word

hee was to take a good heart vnto him for Monsieur the Cardinall had sent letters and messengers throughout the world to giue him succours and that shortly he should haue so many people that hee should not want power to doe what he would The abouenamed Robert de Pequigni answered him that hee spake his pleasure and that if the Earle of Montfort had not beleeued him nor any such hee had not beene in those troubles that now hee was but hee had beene at peace within Toulouze and that hee was the cause of that danger they now were in and of the death of so many people as were continually slaine by the wicked counsell that hee had giuen After many combats the winter grew on and stayed the course of the besiegers who withdrawing themselues to couert where they could about Toulouze expected with good denotation and much impatiencie new succours of Pilgrims The Earle Remond on the other side inclosed the Citie with a Rampier and fortified himselfe against the Castle Narbonnes and prepared to receiue the Pilgrims whensoeuer they should present themselues vnto them In this meane time hee sent his sonne to seeke for succours In the end 1218. about the Spring time in the yeere one thousand two hundred and eighteene there came to the Earle Simon an hundred thousand Souldiers of the Crosse and to the Earle Remond great succours from Gascongne conducted by Narcis de Montesquiou As also the young Remond of Toulouze and Arnaud de Villemur brought vnto him goodly troopes This great multitude of Pilgrims being come the Legat and the Earle Simon thought good they should earne their pardon knowing that at the end of fortie daies this great cloude of Pilgrims would vanish They therefore commanded them instantly to giue a generall scalado which was deferred to the next morning by which time they had other worke to doe for the very first night of their arriuall putting their confidence in their great multitude they kept no good guard Which the Earle of Toulouze perceiuing made a salley out vpon them and that with so good successe that the next morning all the field was couered with dead bodies The Toulouzains being wearie with killing returned to giue thankes vnto God for his assistance The Earle Simon entred the Castle Narbonnez to descrie whether from thence there were any way to inuade the Citie but finding none it much troubled him whereupon two of his Lords of the Crosse gaue him aduice to come to some honourable agreement The Cardinall Bertrand told them there needed no speech of that and that the Church could saue them in despite of them if they spake any thing to the aduantage of the Albingenses One amongst them answered And where finde you Monsieur Cardinall that without cause and reason you should take from the Earle Remond and his sonne that which belongs vnto them If I had vnderstood as much as I now know saith he I had neuer made this voyage The whole Countrie was enemie to the Earle Simon which was the cause of the famine in his Armie but on the contrary there was within Toulouze all plenty and abundance Tpon St. Iohn the Baptists Eue betimes in the morning the troopes of the Earle Remond went forth of Toulouze crying out Auignon Beaucaire Muret and Toulouze killing as many as they encountred A Souldier ranne to the Earle Simon and told him that the enemie was come forth to whom he answered that he would first see his Redeemer and then see his enemie Diuers others came vnto him crying out Wee are vndone if no man will come out and command the Armie which did flie before the Toulouzains He againe answered that he would not stirre a foot from the Masse though he were there to die before hee had seene his Maker insomuch that had not the Priest that sung the Masse clipt and curtolled it a little for feare lest his eares should haue beene clipt he had beene taken or slaine before the Altar Heare what Noguiers saith Noguiers in his Hestory of Toulouze lib. 3. chap. 10. At this so violent a shocke the Earle Simon being mounted his horse his horse was wounded in the middle of his head with an Arrow which the horse feeling got presently the bit betweene his teeth in such sort that Montfort could neuer stay him but hee carryed him here and there in dispite of himselfe which a Souldier of the Citie seeing assuring himselfe of him shot him with his Crosse-bow through the thigh with which wound Montfort lost great store of bloud and finding himselfe much payned therewith entreated the Earle Guy his brother to leade him forth of the presse to stench his bloud In the time whilest hee was talking with his brother a stone out of a sling or engine whereout stones or arrowes were darted which a woman thinking nothing let flie hit Montfort yet talking with his brother and parted his head from his shoulders so that his body fell dead to the ground It was saith he a wonderfull thing and thereby may his successors consider that they maintained an vniust quarrell not to punish those that were wandred from the faith for that had beene a thing very commendable and commodious but to oppresse his owne vassals heaping on them miseries vpon miseries to rauish women and their daughters to the end they might vtterly ruine and confound them all especially doing the duty of vassals and to retaine the goods of another who though hee were an Heretike as Montfort supposed yet neuerthelesse in the twinckling of an eye he might be better aduised and amend his life But as I thinke saith hee a couetous desire to raigne blinded him which wee may easily iudge by the bad vsage oppressions and extortions which he executed against the innocent people of Toulouze who honored him cherished and wished him prosperitie as to their Lord. This skirmish and discomfiture was in Iune the day after the feast of St. Iohn the Baptist in the yeere 1218. 1218. Thus you see how Noguiers the Historiographer of those times hath spoken of this man as of one that was caried with passion and vnsatiable couetousnesse But that which was worthy the obseruation is that he was not ouerthrowne but at that very instant when by three diuers Councels he had beene proclaimed the Monarch of his conquests the Captaine of the Armies of the Church the sonne the seruant the fauorite thereof the defender of the faith Adored of the people feared of the great the terror of Kings Thus you see Iudges 9. that as that ambitious Paracide Abimelech was slaine with a peece of a Mill-stone which a woman cast from a Tower which brake his skull so this destroyer of the people ruiner of Cities deuourer of the states of other men was slaine with a stone from a sling Chass lib. 4 c. 11. flung by a woman as some Historiographers haue obserued On the the other side the Monke cryes out in this manner The

neuer to beare Armes either against the Legat or the Church of Rome Here you see the last attempt which wee finde the Albingenses haue made and the last expedition of Pilgrims leuied against them All the pursuit against them afterward was made by the Monkes the Inquisitors who kindled their fires more than euer And so taking this poore people disarmed and singling them out by retaile it was impossible for them any longer to subsist And if at any time they hapned to set vpon the Inquisitors it was but to giue them a more sensible apprehension of their extreme violencies whereof we haue a notable example in the Chapter following CHAP. X. Many Monkes Inquisitors and Officers of the Inquisition slaine and for what cause Pope Innocent the fourth vseth the Earle Remond disgracefully The Earle Remond goes to Rome and why He takes his iourney to Rhodes dies at Milan 1243. IN the yeare one thousand two hundred fortie three the Earle Remond hauing satisfied his pecuniary penalties and being returned to his Subiects certaine of the Country complained of the vniust proceeding of the Monkes Inquisitors who without any difference intangled in such sort all sorts of people that there were not almost any that they condemned not either for Heretiques or Fauourers or Kinsfolke or allies of Heretiques not being content to proceede against those that made publike profession of the beleefe of the Albingenses in such sort that vnder the cloke of the Inquisition office they committed strange theeueries This accusation against the Inquisitors was before the Earle Remond in the presence of fiue Inquisitors and foure Officers of the Inquisition that is to say The History of Languedsc Chap. 4. fol. 40. before William Arnaldi Monke Inquisitor and two other Iacobin Monkes Also one Remond de l'Escriuain Archdeacon of the Church of Toulouze and the Prior of Auignonnet de Cluze and Peter Arnaldi Notarie of the Inquisition and three other of Auignonnet in the Diocesse of Toulouze The Monkes Inquisitors would reply and make some vse of that which had beene informed to frame their inditements against those that had thus accused them to the impeachment of their honour terrifying them with threats which made those that had thus moued their patience to enter into consideration with themselues that since they must fall into the snare of the said Inquisitors and so be vtterly vndone it was better for them to deliuer themselues this once and that they should teach others to carry themselues more aduisedly So growing still more eager and violent in their discourse they came to blowes But the Monkes Inquisitors and their Officers were ouermatched for there were slaine as the Historiographer of Languedoc reports nine that is to say The fiue Monks aboue specified and the foure Officers True it is that this Writer doth aggrauate the Fact and hee would haue men beleeue that it was a premeditated treason wherein he shewes himselfe to be partiall and passionate The Earle Remond did very well make it appeare that he was no way consenting to this riot for hee made an exact search and inquirie after the Authors of this sedition but yet doe what he could he could not free himselfe from suspition The same Historiographer saith that the atrocitie of the fact constrained the Authors to take Armes and to beginne againe a kinde of warre but there is not any Writer that makes mention thereof and therefore to be considered of before it be beleeued Pope Innocent the fourth came to Lion about that time He sends out his thunder-bolts against the murderers and hee looked not vpon the Earle Remond with a good countenance who was vnciuilly reiected in that request that he made vnto him touching a dispensation for the marriage of his Cousin Beatrix daughter of the Earle Berenger Earle of Prouence The same Historiographer saith that in the yeere 1247. the Earle Remond tooke his iourney to Rome 1247. The hist of Languedoc fol. 41. that he might bee permitted to burie the bones of his father in holy ground and that it was denied him because he died an excommunicate person 1249. He likewise saith that in the yeere one thousand two hundred fortie nine when the Earle Remond purposed to take his voyage to Rhodes hee died at Milan of a continuall feuer CHAP. XI Alphonsus brother to the king St. Lewis taketh possession of the goods of the last Earle Remond of Toulouze The persecution continueth against the Albingenses vnto the time that the Gospell was receiued in France and then the greatest part of those places where the Albingenses inhabited presently receiued the reformation THe change of their Lord altered the condition of the Albingenses for the Earle Remond being departed this life Alphonsus brother to the king St. Lewis tooke possession of all the lands goods and reuenues of the said Earle and consequently all the ill will that the Pope and other ecclesiasticall persons bare to the house of the Earle of Toulouze did cease And as touching the places which he was to yeeld vp contained in the treatie there needed no farther speech of that because Alphonsus being free from all suspition of falshood to the Pope or the Church he peaceably enioyed whatsoeuer belonged vnto him But one hand washeth another and therefore as by those warrs that the Church vndertooke against the Earle of Toulouze Alphonsus was become Master of the goods of the Earle Remond so was he bound to doe his best endeuours that the Pope might be honoured in his countries For this cause hee strengthned the Inquisition witnesse the Monke Rainerius who was Inquisitor in the yeare 1250. 1250. who hath left vs in writing the whole forme of their proceeding whereof we haue the transcript in the second booke of the history of the Waldenses In this hist of the Waldenses ch 2. lib. 2. Pope Alexander the fourth authorized the said Inquisition by letters which wee haue in our hands The continuance of this persecution by the said Inquisition is proued in the yeare 1264. 1264. by the constitutions of Pope Clement the fourth Also in the yeare 1276. 1276. vnder Iohn the two and twentieth they were persecuted with all manner of rigour witnesse the letters of the said Pope against them And by this record that followeth it appeareth that in the yeere 1281. 1281. vnder Martin the fourth there was a persecution moued in the quarters of Albi and that there were at that time a great number that made profession of the Religion of the Albingenses AN EXTRACT OF THE Priuiledges of the Citie of Realmont To the honour of God the Father the Sonne and the Holy Ghost creator of all things visible and inuisible and of the glorious mother of God who only hath destroied all heresies WEE William de Gourdon Captaine and President of Carcassonne and Beziers doe make knowne vnto all men that we command in the name of our most excellent Lord Philip by the grace of God